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Acceptable Use Policy.

The boundaries every account on the NexusHub grid agrees to. Six violation categories, exactly what triggers them, and exactly what happens next — filed in full, not softened.

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99.998%

clean traffic ratio, grid-wide

Threat ScrubbingENFORCING
This policy is enforced automatically, around the clock. Violating any clause below can result in immediate suspension — some categories carry zero appeal, as stated against each rule.
the prohibited ledger

Six violation categories.

Filed in the order they're checked. Engaging in any one triggers the enforcement procedure below.

01AUP-01

Malicious payloads & botnets

critical purge

Distributing trojans, rootkits, command-and-control backdoors, ransomware, or any executable payload built to gain unauthorized access.

penaltyImmediate node disconnect + law enforcement referral
02AUP-02

Phishing & deceptive mimicry

critical purge

Hostile credential harvesting, deceptive banking interfaces, or brand impersonation intended to extract personal or financial data.

penaltyInstant egress nullification + domain flagging
03AUP-03

Terrorism, violence & hate

critical purge

Hosting propaganda, violent extremism, self-harm encouragement, or coordinated harassment against protected groups. Absolute zero tolerance.

penaltyPermanent account termination — zero appeal
04AUP-04

Computational & edge abuse

high isolation

Crypto mining scripts, continuous stress-testing bots, or runaway processes intended to degrade neighboring instance throughput.

penaltyKernel throttling + 2-hour rectification window
05AUP-05

Unsolicited bulk mail

high isolation

Operating spam relay clusters, purchasing unvetted email lists, or hosting landing funnels for deceptive mass solicitation.

penaltySMTP / port-25 lockdown + domain quarantine
06AUP-06

Illicit trade & darknet commerce

critical purge

Unregulated narcotics distribution, counterfeit licensing, unlicensed weapons commerce, or unlawful digital contraband.

penaltyImmediate frozen state + evidence archival
enforcement procedure

What happens after a flag.

Four steps, in order, every time — from automated detection to a formal appeal window.

01
INGEST_SCAN< 300ms

Autonomous detection

Real-time edge heuristic scanners or verified external telemetry reports trigger automated forensic isolation.

02
MANUAL_TRIAGEavg. 45 min

Security review

Trust & Safety engineers audit the flagged instance's logs and sandbox its payloads by hand.

03
ENACT_MITIGATIONinstant

Targeted action

Malicious payloads are severed from the edge routing table and the affected account is suspended.

04
APPEAL_GATEWAY48-hour SLA

Formal appeal

Account holders get a 48-hour window to submit signed counter-evidence if flagged in error.

Subnet Circuit Breaker

Fair Use & Shared Edge Quotas

NexusHub executes instances across shared sovereign clusters. To maintain deterministic latency for every neighboring workload, individual accounts cannot trigger abusive CPU looping or unmetered bandwidth hoarding.

no cryptocurrency mining
Storage Quotas
no torrent relays or warez
Network Traffic
no unmetered stress testing
Compute Resources
no open proxies or exit nodes
Network Access

Active Abuse on the Grid?

If an instance operating on NexusHub infrastructure violates this policy, skip normal support queues and dispatch a priority report straight to Trust & Safety.

Automated triage SLA: < 45 minutes guaranteed